Vaughan Barnes v. . Gooch and Prescott

This action is instituted for foreclosure, by-sale of the land mentioned in the complaint, which had been conveyed by mortgage deed from the defendant Prescott to the defendant Gooch, to secure the payment of certain notes under seal executed to the latter, and which Gooch has assigned together with the mortgage, to the plaintiffs, as collateral security for his own indebtedness to them.

The summons was duly issued and served upon both defendants, and at the return term thereof a judgment was entered in these words:

“ This cause coming on to be heard, and it being made to appear to the court…